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[Balance] The BFG - Too Awesome to Use

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Thomas:
I've noticed that in my runs, I never use the BFG unless I'm fighting the cyberdemon (and even then, I'm usually not playing rapidfire so I might use the LS or a shotgun). In my most recent Nightmare! shotgun game, I decided that maybe my shotguns weren't going to be enough for this level and that I had cells to spare, so I might as well fire off a couple of hundred cells and just take out the cyberdemon with my shotgun.

So I go up to the nearest 10 Revenant + 2 Vile pack (I had Iro 3, TaN 3 and red armour) and start shooting. I realise about 2 BFG shots in that I had accomplished little other than getting them all to 30% HP and destroying my reloading cover. With no phase devices, I died shortly thereafter.

It was a brutal reminder (I was on level 24) of why I never use the BFG, because it MIGHT kill everything but it DEFINITELY destroys all of your cover.

I suggest making the chance for a BFG to destroy walls MUCH lower, but keep the item destruction rate about the same as it is now.

Or change it so that the BFG has 2 explosion radiuses, one for full enemy damage and high wall destruction chance, one for half enemy damage and no wall destruction chance. The first explosion would be as large as a normal rocket, the second would be anything that you can see, no matter how far away it is.

Aki:
That sounds good, but i'd rather make the BFG not blow up items.

Kornel Kisielewicz:
Both BFG 9000 and 10K will be tweaked to increase their awesomeness (Ticket #90). Suggestions still welcome :)

Gargulec:
Yes- reveal what the Doom are those tickets? :D

Dervis:
I always saw the BFG from Doom and Doom2 like a very powerful cone fire weapon disregarding number of targets, very much like the shotguns work in DoomRL. In my opinion a BFG behaving like a double shotgun (maybe just a little bit wider, longer range, and capable of destroying walls) with more than 50 damage on a point blank shot would feel a lot more Doomish* to me.

*Doomish like in 'this BFG shot will be that much sweeter if i can shoot it to the FACE'.

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